I was born in Belgium in 1940,
two
years after my parents were hounded out of Austria and two weeks before
Germany invaded the country of my birth. I consequently spent my early
childhood hidden from the Nazi exterminators. Until recently I saw the
ADL as a bulwark against the kind of prejudice that killed my family
and
waged war on unorthodox creeds.

It is very sad for me now to
find
out that the ADL itself has become complicit in the extermination of
ideas.
You see, besides being a Jew and having escaped the atrocities visited
on most of my family, I am also a member of NAMBLA. This is an
organization
that your Web filter arbitrarily blocks. It is an organization to which
America's premier poet Allen Ginsberg belonged and to which he
contributed
his art and efforts. This man who has been lionized for his promotion
of
peace and tolerance found kindred spirits within NAMBLA.

It may be that the ADL
contracted
its filter to technocrats with little sense of the damage that the
killing
of ideas brings. It may be that the ADL simply adapted an off-the-shelf
filter with-out much examination. Whatever the reason, I fervently hope
that the ADL see for itself that NAMBLA's Web site defends a persecuted
minority against ignorance, hatred and bigotry. Please remedy your
ill-considered
action.